Vivian Shelby has long come to terms with the fact that her personal life is empty, and those around her consider her an old maid. But one day, by the will of fate, before the Christmas holidays, she found herself captive in the snow with a man whom she had seen for the first time in her life. The roads were snowy, a blizzard was raging outside, firewood was crackling in the fireplace, a scattering of sparks flared up and then went out, and then the magic of Christmas came into its own. . And the forced captives suddenly realized that a fragile thread of mutual attraction had already stretched between them...